unadaptable

Eventually, they hired German screenwriter and director Nora Fingscheidt, who became an indelible creative partner, even if at first she thought the book was “unadaptable.”

But I doubt others will mind this version’s deviations from a text that studio executives considered to be unadaptable for many years.

It’s an absurdist portrait of America on the verge of self-destruction adapted from a novel considered unadaptable.

DeLillo’s novel has long been considered to be “unadaptable” due to how it succeeded in telling an expansive yet intimate story of postmodern peril.

In short, it felt like "The Wheel of Time" had to make some really difficult choices to adapt a basically unadaptable story.